ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Much like your audience analysis report, it will ensure everyone involved in the planning, production, and distribution process is aligned. Well-defined goals and objectives.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. (Or

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. Are all co-founders equal, Clavier asked?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One of the conversations I had with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ), during this trip to Patagonia, reinforced my belief in the necessity of venture capital. He realized that a venture capitalist is not a banker or moneylender; she or he is a “financial co-founder” that the startup “hires” by accepting an investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I spent $20k on their MVP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. This is John Jan, and my guest today is Camden Francis.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. Did you bootstrap the whole business or bring in outside investors? Alejandro: Initially, Candela Mamajuana was all bootstrapped between my mother and I. Don’t do things halfway.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I spent $20k on their MVP.

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Abell, New York Bureau Chief for Wired.com Panelists: - Tony Jebara, Associate Professor Computer Science, Columbia University & Chief Scientist at Sense Networks - Chris Dixon, Co-founder, CEO at Hunch - Denis Crowley, Founder and CEO of Foursquare Exploring trends in lifecasting and the proliferation of location based services.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. We have worked with over 700 food companies.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

They distribute the content via established Platforms that help them reach and grow an audience such as Twitch, Youtube, Tiktok, SubStack, OnlyFans etc, and more often than not, they build following in more than one of these channels and benefit from cross promotion (i.e. ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree.

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San Diego Social Media Cofounder Bootstrapping 179

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. At this time, we had secured a term sheet from a co-investor from one of my other angel investments (Thanks, Graeme!) Bootstrapping 101.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

That’s why I recommend that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one expert on the technical solution, and the other with business model experience. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Certainly the knowledge and skills required are different.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

It means it’s easy enough to develop that eight hours or so is all it takes to build something that can then be distributed/accessed for free by lots of people. Last two years was “fast graph” -> app bootstrapping via “connect your FB account and autofollow all friends.” Taptalk (social photos app).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. Ofir Beigel and Karin Levi, the co-founders of Capple Factory are both graduates of Israel’s Zell Entrepreneurship program , which is quickly gaining the reputation of Israel’s Y Combinator. Are you looking to raise funding?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users. Founders sometimes assume that they need an influx of cash to truly grow a product. Not Distribution. Image above from Toban Black. Think Product.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. Semiconductors. Transportation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And then co-founded Helix Nano Technologies, or HelixNano, which I am now the CEO of. HelixNano was founded to develop cancer vaccines. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 20, 2013

Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups acquire, retain, and monetize users. Founders sometimes assume that they need an influx of cash to truly grow a product. Not Distribution. If you’re bootstrapping it’s an obvious choice.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 40

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

Tal Flanchraych , Marianne Bellotti and Jacek Grebski teamed up on the NY bus to create a unified API for the world’s open data, and publishing tools for companies who want to distribute their data. These three co-founders even headed out west when they scored an interview with Y-Combinator.

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New York API Silicon Valley Aggregator 72

Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users. Founders sometimes assume that they need an influx of cash to truly grow a product. Not Distribution. Image above from Toban Black. Think Product.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 27

Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. In 2012, when we opened up the coworking space Bill Boebel and Gordon became co-founders and helped establish the model that we have in place today. We are a bootstrapped business so cash management is critical?—?you

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